740.00119 Control (Rumania)/10–444: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Officers 39

Department’s circular of September 2, 1944.40 If the initiative should come from the Rumanian diplomatic representatives, the Department has no objection to informal relations between you and your staff and such representatives. You may accept informally any documents which the Rumanian representative may wish to deliver to you for transmission to your Government. We are interested in being fully informed.

Under the provisions of the armistice signed by Rumania on September 12 an Allied Control Commission is being established in Rumania. It is expected that the only official relations between the Rumanian and United States Governments will be conducted through that channel until such time as diplomatic relations are resumed.

Hull
  1. At Ankara (for repetition to Istanbul), Bern, Lisbon, Rome, and Stockholm, and as No. 2708 to Madrid.
  2. Vol. i, p. 613.